Reference skills

Here is a list of all of the skills that cover reference skills! These skills are organised by year, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!

Preschool skills

  1. A.1 Identify book parts and features

Foundation skills

  1. A.1 Identify book parts and features
  2. B.9 Put the letters in ABC order

Year 1 skills

  1. V.1 Put the letters in ABC order
  2. V.2 Put the words in ABC order

Year 2 skills

  1. U.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
  2. U.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
  3. U.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
  4. U.4 Use guide words
  5. U.5 Use dictionary entries

Year 3 skills

  1. M.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
  2. M.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
  3. M.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
  4. M.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
  5. M.5 Use guide words
  6. M.6 Use dictionary entries
  7. M.7 Use dictionary definitions

Year 4 skills

  1. M.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
  2. M.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
  3. M.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
  4. M.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
  5. M.5 Use guide words
  6. M.6 Use dictionary entries
  7. M.7 Use dictionary definitions
  8. M.8 Use thesaurus entries

Year 5 skills

  1. L.1 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
  2. L.2 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
  3. L.3 Order alphabetically: challenge
  4. L.4 Use guide words
  5. L.5 Use dictionary entries
  6. L.6 Use dictionary definitions
  7. L.7 Use thesaurus entries

Year 6 skills

  1. L.1 Alphabetical order
  2. L.2 Use guide words
  3. L.3 Use dictionary entries
  4. L.4 Use dictionary definitions
  5. L.5 Use thesaurus entries

Year 7 skills

  1. I.1 Alphabetical order
  2. I.2 Use guide words
  3. I.3 Use dictionary entries
  4. I.4 Use dictionary definitions
  5. I.5 Use thesaurus entries

Year 8 skills

  1. I.1 Alphabetical order
  2. I.2 Use guide words
  3. I.3 Use dictionary entries
  4. I.4 Use dictionary definitions
  5. I.5 Use thesaurus entries

Year 9 skills

  1. I.1 Use dictionary entries
  2. I.2 Use dictionary definitions
  3. I.3 Use thesaurus entries
  4. J.3 Replace words using a thesaurus
  5. J.4 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage

Year 10 skills

  1. I.1 Use dictionary entries
  2. I.2 Use dictionary definitions
  3. I.3 Use thesaurus entries
  4. J.3 Replace words using a thesaurus
  5. J.4 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage

Year 11 skills

  1. H.4 Replace words using a thesaurus
  2. H.5 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage

Year 12 skills

  1. H.4 Replace words using a thesaurus
  2. H.5 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage